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Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 02:28:04 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jewel Nuruddin <jewel.nuruddin@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Dose CloudStack support PXE boot
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Hi,
Thanks for the reply.
Yes you are right CloudStack might not be good for cobbler because of DHCP,=
 and Cloudstack have already  VirtualRouter=A0 which does dhcp for all the =
instances launched.

Thanks
Jewel

--- On Fri, 6/8/12, Prasanna Santhanam <Prasanna.Santhanam@citrix.com> wrot=
e:

From: Prasanna Santhanam <Prasanna.Santhanam@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: Dose CloudStack support PXE boot
To: "cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org" <cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.=
org>
Cc: "cloudstack-users@incubator.apache.org" <cloudstack-users@incubator.apa=
che.org>
Date: Friday, June 8, 2012, 6:20 PM

On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 04:58:59AM -0400, Jewel Nuruddin wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> Can I create a vm without ISO or template,

CloudStack did used to have a concept of "Blank ISO" before. I'm not
sure if it is usable here or not. And what happened of it.

> why I ask this because in > my environment I want to use Cobbler so
> every vm will get start from > Cobbler and install everything
> automatically.=A0 So I need to know if CloudStack vm can support PXE boot=
.

Doesn't Cobbler expect to be the only DHCP server in the network? This
might not play well with the VirtualRouter of CloudStack which does
dhcp for all the instances launched.=20

For your auto install of packages you could consider deploying a
solution with=20

Chef:
http://www.opscode.com/blog/2012/02/13/chef-support-for-citrix-cloudstack/

Or

Puppet:
http://geek.jasonhancock.com/2012/02/08/running-puppet-on-cloudstack-instan=
ces/

--=20
Prasanna.,

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